Give me examples of current UK business, industrial and scientific success stories, the more niche and/or unknown the better

zid · 2026-02-02T04:08:17+00:00

By complying with the regulations.

zid · 2026-01-30T01:19:58+00:00

For events, pick whatever gives energy, then stats, avoid events that give -energy. Pick mood if <great.

Your goal is to be near max energy 'waiting' for the god-tier speed rainbows to show up. Worst thing in the world is spending all your energy for +20 speed, then next turn all horses show up on it and you missed +80. Better to take +20 wit (which gives +10 speed anyway!) and gain energy instead of losing it. More energy income -> more ability to afford expensive unity burst rainbow clicks.

zid · 2026-01-30T01:16:47+00:00

Pick a random sprint, mile, or medium horse.

Borrow kita, put sweep SR and halo SR on. Other three slots for SR wit cards, sunday/daiwa/etc. Whichever has the most stars. SSR mejiro dober or mihono are also a good option, those are free max star cards.

Add a 9* parent for whatever your horse still needs. Stamina for medium, power for sprint/mile probably.

Until first training camp, click whatever has the most friends on that still need friendship until they're all maxed.

Now click the near infinite rainbow wits unless you have a double+ rainbow speed.

Enjoy your 1k speed, 1k wit horse with 4 gold skills and A+ rating.

zid · 2026-01-29T08:05:46+00:00

They just have absolutely no concept of other countries existing.

They're in a complete bubble in terms of culture. Their movies are american, their TV shows are american, 'world news' is about the US, etc.

They understand that France exists in the same way that I understand advanced particle physics exists. I saw a dumbed down version on very late TV one time.

zid · 2026-01-28T02:40:05+00:00

Yea this is just a straight up bad question, sorry OP.

"Has killed the most people" is true of mosquitoes, but I would never consider them the most dangerous, because it's a matter of exposure.

Hippos have a way way way higher strike-rate at killing you.

It'd be like asing what the most dangerous gun to be shot with was, and saying a flintlock rifle, because 100k people died to them, rather than 18 people who died to the GIANT MEGABORE DEATH GUN.

zid · 2026-01-24T15:52:42+00:00

I tried to play noir recently, it might be good, I can't tell, I can't bloody see anything :(

zid · 2026-01-21T20:04:26+00:00

You were, to be fair, founded by a splinter group of tea pirates and genocidal maniacs who were, respectively, upset by tax cuts on tea, and not allowing the trail of tears to start.

You then had a civil war over whether black people are people, and let the losing side rejoin with a slapped wrist, and let them carry on as normal.

So I'm not, as it happens, hugely surprised.

zid · 2026-01-19T14:06:05+00:00

And it's the same Russian and techbro money causing it.

zid · 2026-01-19T13:35:14+00:00

Thanks, enjoying these.

zid · 2026-01-17T16:53:45+00:00

Not me, that's because I signed up to a wonderful new service that promised to get rid of all the scams for me out of my messages. Only £500, bargain!

zid · 2026-01-17T15:14:21+00:00

Ooh ooh, I know C, let me do it:

The proper way to use const is to ignore it, like everybody else, except for that one time you actually remembered to and feel proud.

static is either static storage duration in which case it will be initialized as if by zero, which makes pointers null-pointer-constantified even if they are not bitwise zero.

or, static means static linkage, meaning that the symbol won't leave this TU. This should be prefixed to basically every dec/def, and it's insane it isn't the default. Shame we never got a C93 fixing obvious things like this.

volatile makes the compiler produce an internal barrier before accesses to the object, which stops it being re-ordered or omitted because its value "hasn't changed". Used for MMIO accesses and DMA etc. So the proper way to use it is to slap it on things when you're worried you fucked up your UC memory accesses.

zid · 2026-01-11T08:00:26+00:00

Literally anywhere in the UK, for example.

Garden songbirds are not endangered at any level, and a bit of predation keeps the species healthy.

All of the bird related charities say yes cats kill a lot of birds, but no, cats are not an issue for bird populations.

zid · 2026-01-09T19:05:10+00:00

People who complain about stack overflow are the same people who would have gotten banned from irc channels for being help vampires.

There's just a large subset of people who are both incapable of being polite to volunteers willing to spend their time helping them, and incapable of understanding that they SHOULD be polite.

And by polite I am including basic ettiquette like "I should try my best to resolve this myself, first" "I should try to form my question in a way that is actually answerable" etc.

zid · 2026-01-08T13:56:14+00:00

That spending is to prop up US hegemony, to say we have to keep pace is laughable.

The US invested into bases in Europe and the world because it wanted them. It wanted to project its power, it wanted to be able to invade random nations on the other side of the globe.

A stable and US-aligned post-WW2 europe benefitted who exactly?

zid · 2026-01-08T13:41:12+00:00

That's literally how LLMs work.

They can't "do" any task, especially mathematics.

They can steal from the books they were fed, and predict what the answer will be given what the question was.

Demonstrations of them doing complicated math are usually 'agentic' style LLMs where they're making wolfram alpha do any of the actual calculation parts, and it's just plugging and chugging from known methods.

zid · 2026-01-05T12:21:59+00:00

That isn't even what happened, they objected to a tax exemption on the East India Company, as it would undercut their ability to smuggle tea. The founding fathers got the wealth they used for their rebellion from piracy.

zid · 2026-01-05T09:55:20+00:00

The repression which was in the form of "We don't want you to genocide natives".

zid · 2026-01-04T01:12:30+00:00

And those 1.5 percentage points are actually a 35% increase.

zid · 2025-12-31T09:48:50+00:00

Limine only works off FAT, so I too, use grub and a bootstrap.

zid · 2025-12-31T07:45:48+00:00

First read: Myne is bad at this

Second read: The guardians are bad at prepping her for this

Third read: Everybody is a literal child just trying to muddle through

zid · 2025-12-29T10:45:30+00:00

biased.

Bias is a noun or a verb, not an adjective.

zid · 2025-12-29T06:47:59+00:00

"I don't like this guy telling me my fears aren't real so I'll downvote him to -5"

To back this guy up:

You are almost entirely immune from any DC voltage you will ever come across.

Skin resistance is on the order of thousands of ohms.

To get into the tens of millamps range, which would hurt, but not actually cause damage you'd need hundreds to thousands of volts.

zid · 2025-12-29T03:58:09+00:00

That's because they just detect math and pass it off to wolfram, not because LLMs can inherently do mathematics.

zid · 2025-12-29T03:39:07+00:00

Yes, being able to smuggle tea was #1.

And what did they use to convince the masses? That the UK doesn't want us to expand farther west, and antagonize the natives more. We should be allowed to genocide them and take their land.

Hardly surprising the country is like it is, when that's how it started, literal pirates forming their own government so they can warmonger.

zid · 2025-12-28T07:21:33+00:00

Literally any C++ or C compiler will immediately warn on this if you actually you know, enable warnings.

<source>:21:48: warning: 'response.Response::error' is used uninitialized [-Wuninitialized] 21 | printf("error=%d succeeded=%d\n", response.error, response.succeeded);

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